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• 1024GB of memory
• Ubuntu OS
• Decent bandwidth 2GB or higher / month
• Allow adding more IPs
• Provide console access
• Preferably hypervisor based
• Nice to have ability to do full image backups and restores

Virtualization Technologies

In general, there are two main types,

Hypervisor, which is hardware-based virtualization - Xen, VMWare and KVM

Container (software) based virtualization where the host kernel is shared - OpenVZ, Virtuozzo (based on OpenVZ), Solaris Zones.

The following chart outlines the top level pros and cons,

Java with Container Based Virtualization

At least with Virpus who uses OpenVZ they say Java does not work well.

Here is a good article that explains the challenges and offers a possible solution..
This looks like it has working solutions http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=7057.

Considering

Selected Virtual Private Server

vServer Center

http://www.vservercenter.com/
web management: https://vcp.vservercenter.com

This looks too good to be true.

KVM hosting at $29.95/Month with life-time discount using http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1102906 FRMVDSKV20 and it goes down to $9.95/Month. It looks to be real. I just purchased,

$9.95/month for KVM with Mem = 1GB, BW = Unmetered at 10mbps = 1000GB, Space = 20GB

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• No image backup and restore ability though they show a picture of the backup icon http://www.vservercenter.com/kvm-control-panel (contact support, they will sell you cloud space and you can call them to do the backup for you... however, they will look into this in the future)
• No DNS Servers (not a big con, most domain registrars provide this)

YardVPS

This one also looks good with a fast connection speed. Normally $15.95 but with the discount code yardvps it drops down to $12.76. They have a 100Mbit connection,

http://www.yardvps.com/xen.html

$12.76/month for Xen with Mem = 1GB, BW = 20000 GB at 100Mbit, Space = 50GB

Just noticed another coupon, limited sale for today March 1, 2012, YARDLEAP which gave me a 40% discount dropping it to $9.57.

One con, they currently do not offer additional IPs.

Servers are located in Los Angeles, California.

March 4, 2012 - So far not impressed. After fiddling around I found that the system did not notify me it was ready. I booted the system, but so far it's not trivial to get going.

Virtualization Technologies

In general, there are two main types,

Hypervisor, which is hardware-based virtualization - Xen, VMWare and KVM

Container (software) based virtualization where the host kernel is shared - OpenVZ, Virtuozzo (based on OpenVZ), Solaris Zones.

The following chart outlines the top level pros and cons,

 Java with Container Based Virtualization

At least with Virpus who uses OpenVZ they say Java does not work well.

Here is a good article that explains the challenges and offers a possible solution..
This looks like it has working solutions http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=7057.

Considered

RAM HOST

http://www.ramhost.us/?page=vps/kvm-los-angeles-west

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• 50 GB Disk Space
• 3,000 GB Bandwidth
• 1024 MB RAM
• 2048 MBBurst RAM
• Equal CPU (1 core min.)

Rejected

YardVPS

This one also looks good with a fast connection speed. Normally $15.95 but with the discount code yardvps it drops down to $12.76. They have a 100Mbit connection,

http://www.yardvps.com/xen.html

$12.76/month for Xen with Mem = 1GB, BW = 20000 GB at 100Mbit, Space = 50GB

Just noticed another coupon, limited sale for today March 1, 2012, YARDLEAP which gave me a 40% discount dropping it to $9.57.

One con, they currently do not offer additional IPs.

Servers are located in Los Angeles, California.

March 4, 2012 - So far not impressed. After fiddling around I found that the system did not notify me it was ready. I booted the system, but so far it's not trivial to get going.

Virpus Networks - Rejected

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